Extend your life, walk!

Let’s all work on extending our lives the easy way, take a walk!

New research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that even some walking is better than none for reducing all-cause mortality in older adults.

Researchers found that even a small amount of walking had an impact on health, with the all-cause mortality rate for inactive individuals 26% greater than for the “insufficiently active” group. And things got better the more people walked: Compared with the insufficiently active group, participants who walked 2-6 hours per week were 20% less likely to have died by the end of the study, and those who walked more than 6 hours per week were 22% less likely.